Professional Development Books and CDs

The following books and CDs are available for borrowing. Contact Robina Bhasin at 617-638-8099.

Career advice

Diversity

Grantsmanship

Leadership

Medical

Mentoring

Productivity

Teaching

Workplace dynamics

Career advice

• How to Win Friends and Influence People (CD)
• The Last Lecture (CD)
• Ms. Mentor’s New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia
• The One-Life Solution (CD)
• The Secret Handshake- Mastering the Politics of the Business Inner Circle
• StrengthsFinder 2.0
• Successful Faculty in Academic Medicine
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: Discover the 20 Workplace Habits You Need to Break

Diversity

• Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want
• Communicating Diversity- Powerful, Practical, Persuasive Pointers to Get the Job Done
• Hardball for Women: Winning at the Game of Business
• She Wins You Win- The Most Important Strategies for Making Women More Powerful
• What’s Holding You Back? 8 Critical Choices for Women’s Success
• Women Don’t Ask

Grantsmanship and Research

• The Grant Application Writer’s Workbook
• Making the Right Moves- A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty
• Pitch Perfect: Communicating with Traditional and Social Media for Scholars, Researchers, and Academic Leaders
• Publishing and Presenting Clinical Research
• Training Scientists to Make the Right Moves- A Practical Guide to Developing Programs in Scientific Management
• Winning Your NIH Research Grant: 140 Pages of Expert Tips, Tactics, and Insider Advice

Laboratory management

• At the Bench:  A Laboratory Navigator
• At the Helm: Leading Your Laboratory

Leadership

• Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader
• Good to Great (CD)
• Helping Physicians Become Great Managers and Leaders
• Influencer: The Power to Change Anything (CD)
• The Leader Who Had No Title
• Leading Physicians Through Change: How to Achieve and Sustain Results
• Leading Teams: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges
• The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
• Meetings, Bloody Meetings (DVD)
• The One Minute Manager (CD)

Medical

• Changing the Culture of Academic Medicine: Perspectives of Women Faculty
• Iconoclast: Abraham Flexner and a Life in Learning
• Quality by Design: A Clinical Microsystems Approach
• Transforming Health Care: Virginia Mason Medical Center’s Pursuit of the Perfect Patient Experience
• The Trust Prescription for Healthcare- Building Your Reputation with Consumers

Mentoring

• Faculty Success Through Mentoring
• Good Mentoring: Fostering Excellent Practice in Higher Education
• Mentoring at Work: Developmental Relationships in Organizational Life
• Seven Keys to Successful Mentoring

Productivity

• The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (CD and book)
• Getting Things Done- The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (CD)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (CD and book)
• The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Teaching

• Curriculum Development for Medical Education: A Six-Step Approach
• Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
• Teaching Tips for College and University Instructors
• The Tutorial Process

Workplace Dynamics

• Difficult Conversations- How to Discuss What Matters Most (CD)
• Everything Is Obvious* Once You Know the Answer
• Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life, One Conversation at a Time (CD and book)
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In (CD)
• High-Impact Interview Questions: 701 Behavior-Based Questions to Find the Right Person for Every Job
• The No Asshole Rule- Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One that Isn’t (CD and book)
• Productive Workplaces Revisited: Dignity, Meaning, and Community in the 21st Century
• What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: Discover the 20 Workplace Habits You Need to Break